If you’ve watched any popular American series in recent months, you might have noticed a few new cast members. Lower limbs, and not least. Between the speaking organ of Pam & Tommy [une série inspirée de l’affaire de la sextape de l’actrice américaine Pamela Anderson et du batteur Tommy Lee]the imposing virile member unveiled by Harry Goldenblatt in And Just Like That [la suite de Sex and the City]and all the panoply of the last season ofEuphoriait’s a real storm of penises that seems to be falling on television.
Since 1967, and the Dutch TV show hoopla [un programme qui mêlait reportages, interviews et divertissement], a pioneer on the subject, it is not uncommon to see women appear on the screen completely naked, from the front. Men, on the other hand, lagged behind for a few decades, perhaps partly because of the “obscenity laws”, which prohibited [dans différents pays] to show erect penises on television.
fleeting little birds
The British thus had to wait until August 2020 to see their first erection on the small screen – in a Channel 4 documentary entitled Me and My Penis. For several years, the British public can also see snippets of the male anatomy in various programs, sometimes even the little bird. Admittedly, these sexes are inert and their fleeting appearances, but they are all the same visible.
In 2014, in the series [britannique] Babylon, the character played by Glyn Pritchard took a memorable taser in the private parts during a police raid. He was caught by the police wearing a simple T-shirt (which the actor describes rather as “crop top” jokingly).
At the time of filming, the team had suggested several methods to him: “They offered me to keep my underwear for all the rehearsals and takes shot from another angle, remembers Pritchard, who will star – dressed in pants – in an adaptation of the Roi Lear next summer at the Globe Theater in London. That way, I would only find myself naked on one take. But I said to myself that on the contrary it was an opportunity to go gradually, so I tried to undress as often as possible, so that everyone could get used to it and feel more at home. easy”, explain-t-il. Avant de s’esclaffer:
“Finally, within reason of course, I wasn’t going to eat in this outfit.”
Debut with “Edward Scissorhands”
In the United States, the peculiarity of the penises which have swarmed on the screens lately is perhaps